Truth to Power

Real ID bill BS

In case you didn’t know, the Senate is voting on the REAL ID act today, and most likely will pass it, as it’s attached to a war funding bill. National ID folks.

Show us your papers, indeed.

…Like the PATRIOT Act–which was hustled through a terrified Congress in the dead of night just weeks after 9/11–REAL ID is likely to become law because members of Congress don’t have the guts to stand up to the White House and its continuing manipulation of fears about terrorism. It makes you wonder who really does “hate our freedoms.”

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